Why You Should Use This Power BI Online Assessment Test

The Adaface Power BI Online test screens candidates for the typical skills recruiters look for in a Power BI developer: Collate data from different sources by building relationships amongst them Create Data Models and use the DAX Formula language to develop POWERFUL calculations DAX and how to use it to build measures Use themes and custom visualizations Create interactive dashboards with various types of aggregations and filters Publish dashboards to the web and mobile app Use Power BI Desktop, Power BI Query Editor & the Power BI Service The insights generated from this assessment can be used by recruiters and hiring managers to identify the best candidates for the role. Anti-cheating features enable you to be comfortable with conducting assessments online.

Power BI Online Test

About the test:

The Power BI test evaluates candidate's ability to build data models, select and execute appropriate visualizations, create dashboards to explore data and answer queries, publish and share insightful reports and run analytics using DAX language in Power BI.

Covered skills:

Connecting to data sources and importing
Data models
Themes and visualization
Publishing and sharing

Data wrangling and transformations
DAX formulas
Interactive reports
Power BI Desktop

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9 reasons why

Adaface Power BI Online Test is the most accurate way to shortlist Power BI Developers

Reason #1

Tests for on-the-job skills

The Adaface Power BI Online test screens candidates for the typical skills recruiters look for in a Power BI developer:

Collate data from different sources by building relationships amongst them
Create Data Models and use the DAX Formula language to develop POWERFUL calculations
DAX and how to use it to build measures
Use themes and custom visualizations
Create interactive dashboards with various types of aggregations and filters
Publish dashboards to the web and mobile app
Use Power BI Desktop, Power BI Query Editor & the Power BI Service

The insights generated from this assessment can be used by recruiters and hiring managers to identify the best candidates for the role. Anti-cheating features enable you to be comfortable with conducting assessments online.

Reason #2

No trick questions

Traditional assessment tools use trick questions and puzzles for the screening, which creates a lot of frustration among candidates about having to go through irrelevant screening assessments.

The main reason we started Adaface is that traditional pre-employment assessment platforms are not a fair way for companies to evaluate candidates. At Adaface, our mission is to help companies find great candidates by assessing on-the-job skills required for a role.

Why we started Adaface ->

Reason #3

Non-googleable questions

We have a very high focus on the quality of questions that test for on-the-job skills. Every question is non-googleable and we have a very high bar for the level of subject matter experts we onboard to create these questions. We have crawlers to check if any of the questions are leaked online. If/ when a question gets leaked, we get an alert. We change the question for you & let you know.

These are just a small sample from our library of 10,000+ questions. The actual questions on this Microsoft Power BI Test will be non-googleable.

🧐 Question
Medium Default summarization Data Visualisation	Solve
Review the following table in Power BI: Here’s the visualisation generated when Book and ReadingChallenges columns are added to a table visualisation: Why do we see only 4 rows?
Medium Many-to-one error Data Modeling	Solve
Consider the following two tables in Power BI: We received the following error when we tried to set many-to-one cardinality between devices to users tables: “The cardinality you selected isn’t valid for this relationship”. What should we do before creating the many-to-one relationship?
Medium Power Query Functions Power Query	Solve
Review the following Microsoft SQL Server table: Complete the following Power Query formula used to create a custom column to replace the numbers present in last 11 characters of ISBN with 11 ‘’. Example ‘978-0-365-51051-4’ is converted to ‘978-0--**-’ A: Text.Insert B: Text.Replace C: Text.Start D: Text.End
Medium DAX	Solve
We want to create a DAX formula in Power BI that automatically calculates the previous month number. If month is May, the formula would return 4. We have already created the DAX formula: Today Month = MONTH (Sales[Todays Date]) Which of the DAX formulas below would be the right choice next? A: Previous Month = Sales[Today Month]-1 B: Previous Month = PREVIOUSMONTH(Sales[Today Month]) C: Previous Month = STARTOFMONTH(Sales[Today Month])-1 D: Previous Month = IF (Sales[Today Month] =1, 12,Sales[Today Month]-1) (correct)
Medium Sample data in Power BI Power Query	Solve
Consider the following Microsoft SQL Server tables: Which of the following will enable us to import sample data from Sales table in Power BI Desktop? A: Query Editor → Filter table by Sale Date B: Power BI Model → Create a calculated table C: Query Editor → Create a custom column using sample function D: Query Editor → Add SELECT statement with WHERE clause on Date

	🧐 Question	🔧 Skill
	Medium Default summarization Data Visualisation	2 mins Power BI	Solve
Review the following table in Power BI: Here’s the visualisation generated when Book and ReadingChallenges columns are added to a table visualisation: Why do we see only 4 rows?
	Medium Many-to-one error Data Modeling	2 mins Power BI	Solve
Consider the following two tables in Power BI: We received the following error when we tried to set many-to-one cardinality between devices to users tables: “The cardinality you selected isn’t valid for this relationship”. What should we do before creating the many-to-one relationship?
	Medium Power Query Functions Power Query	2 mins Power BI	Solve
Review the following Microsoft SQL Server table: Complete the following Power Query formula used to create a custom column to replace the numbers present in last 11 characters of ISBN with 11 ‘’. Example ‘978-0-365-51051-4’ is converted to ‘978-0--**-’ A: Text.Insert B: Text.Replace C: Text.Start D: Text.End
	Medium DAX	3 mins Power BI	Solve
We want to create a DAX formula in Power BI that automatically calculates the previous month number. If month is May, the formula would return 4. We have already created the DAX formula: Today Month = MONTH (Sales[Todays Date]) Which of the DAX formulas below would be the right choice next? A: Previous Month = Sales[Today Month]-1 B: Previous Month = PREVIOUSMONTH(Sales[Today Month]) C: Previous Month = STARTOFMONTH(Sales[Today Month])-1 D: Previous Month = IF (Sales[Today Month] =1, 12,Sales[Today Month]-1) (correct)
	Medium Sample data in Power BI Power Query	2 mins Power BI	Solve
Consider the following Microsoft SQL Server tables: Which of the following will enable us to import sample data from Sales table in Power BI Desktop? A: Query Editor → Filter table by Sale Date B: Power BI Model → Create a calculated table C: Query Editor → Create a custom column using sample function D: Query Editor → Add SELECT statement with WHERE clause on Date

	🧐 Question	🔧 Skill	💪 Difficulty	⌛ Time
	Default summarization Data Visualisation	Power BI	Medium	2 mins	Solve
Review the following table in Power BI: Here’s the visualisation generated when Book and ReadingChallenges columns are added to a table visualisation: Why do we see only 4 rows?
	Many-to-one error Data Modeling	Power BI	Medium	2 mins	Solve
Consider the following two tables in Power BI: We received the following error when we tried to set many-to-one cardinality between devices to users tables: “The cardinality you selected isn’t valid for this relationship”. What should we do before creating the many-to-one relationship?
	Power Query Functions Power Query	Power BI	Medium	2 mins	Solve
Review the following Microsoft SQL Server table: Complete the following Power Query formula used to create a custom column to replace the numbers present in last 11 characters of ISBN with 11 ‘’. Example ‘978-0-365-51051-4’ is converted to ‘978-0--**-’ A: Text.Insert B: Text.Replace C: Text.Start D: Text.End
	DAX	Power BI	Medium	3 mins	Solve
We want to create a DAX formula in Power BI that automatically calculates the previous month number. If month is May, the formula would return 4. We have already created the DAX formula: Today Month = MONTH (Sales[Todays Date]) Which of the DAX formulas below would be the right choice next? A: Previous Month = Sales[Today Month]-1 B: Previous Month = PREVIOUSMONTH(Sales[Today Month]) C: Previous Month = STARTOFMONTH(Sales[Today Month])-1 D: Previous Month = IF (Sales[Today Month] =1, 12,Sales[Today Month]-1) (correct)
	Sample data in Power BI Power Query	Power BI	Medium	2 mins	Solve
Consider the following Microsoft SQL Server tables: Which of the following will enable us to import sample data from Sales table in Power BI Desktop? A: Query Editor → Filter table by Sale Date B: Power BI Model → Create a calculated table C: Query Editor → Create a custom column using sample function D: Query Editor → Add SELECT statement with WHERE clause on Date

Reason #4

1200+ customers in 75 countries

With Adaface, we were able to optimise our initial screening process by upwards of 75%, freeing up precious time for both hiring managers and our talent acquisition team alike!

Brandon Lee, Head of People, Love, Bonito

Reason #5

Designed for elimination, not selection

The most important thing while implementing the pre-employment Microsoft Power BI Test in your hiring process is that it is an elimination tool, not a selection tool. In other words: you want to use the test to eliminate the candidates who do poorly on the test, not to select the candidates who come out at the top. While they are super valuable, pre-employment tests do not paint the entire picture of a candidate’s abilities, knowledge, and motivations. Multiple easy questions are more predictive of a candidate's ability than fewer hard questions. Harder questions are often "trick" based questions, which do not provide any meaningful signal about the candidate's skillset.

Reason #6

1 click candidate invites

Email invites: You can send candidates an email invite to the Microsoft Power BI Test from your dashboard by entering their email address.

Public link: You can create a public link for each test that you can share with candidates.

API or integrations: You can invite candidates directly from your ATS by using our pre-built integrations with popular ATS systems or building a custom integration with your in-house ATS.

Reason #7

Detailed scorecards & comparative results

Reason #8

High completion rate

Adaface tests are conversational, low-stress, and take just 25-40 mins to complete.

This is why Adaface has the highest test-completion rate (86%), which is more than 2x better than traditional assessments.

Reason #9

Advanced Proctoring

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How do you customize the test for Senior Power BI developers?

The difficulty level of the Power BI questions and the topics the questions evaluate vary based on the seniority level required for the role. Here are a few advanced topics we pick when we customize the test for Senior Power BI developers:

Importing millions of rows of data and analyzing it quickly
Sharing the dashboards and reports with others in a secure manner
Applying advanced "Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL)" to build data models
Running advanced analytics using the DAX language and supporting Python scripts
Creating custom visuals using typescript and the Power BI Developer Tools
Implementing geo-spatial analysis and row-based security.
Distributing and integrating Power BI outputs within other tools and platforms
Creating templates and content packs

About Power BI Developer Roles

Power BI developers are responsible for the development and administration of BI tools along with complete knowledge of the BI system. The main responsibility of a Power BI developer is to convert raw data into meaningful insights through interactive and easy-to-understand dashboards and reports.

Typical Power BI Developer responsibilities include:

Understand business requirements in BI context and design data models to transform raw data into meaningful insights
Design, develop, test, and deploy Power BI scripts and perform detailed analytics
Build analysis services reporting models.
Perform DAX queries and functions in Power BI
Craft and execute queries upon request for data
Design, create and deploy business intelligence solutions as per need

What roles can I use the Microsoft Power BI Test for?

Power BI Developer
Power BI Expert
Power BI Analyst
Power BI Data Engineer
Business Analyst
Senior Power BI Developer
Reporting Analyst
Power BI Administrator

What topics are covered in the Power BI Online Test?

Power Pivot enables you to import millions of rows from heterogeneous sources of data into a single Excel sheet.

Power Pivot

Power Query helps in finding, editing and loading external data.

Power Query

Power Map is an Excel add-in that provides a powerful set of tools to help us visualize and gain insight into large sets of data that have a geo-coded component.

Power Map

Data source connectors

Import to Power BI

Loading data

To do basic calculation and data analysis on data in power pivot, we use Data Analysis Expression (DAX).

DAX

Power BI Conditional Column

Template files

Dashboard sharing

Direct Query

Visualising data

Slicers in Power BI are the simple forms of filters that play a key role in designing customized charts and reports on the Power BI Desktop.

Slicers

Bookmarks

Dates

Content packs for services are pre-built solutions for popular services.

Content packs

Data View

Data Integration

File Optimization

Power Desktop is an aggregated tool of Power Query, Power View, and Power Pivot.

Power BI Desktop

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The hiring managers felt that through the technical questions that they asked during the panel interviews, they were able to tell which candidates had better scores, and differentiated with those who did not score as well. They are highly satisfied with the quality of candidates shortlisted with the Adaface screening.

85%

reduction in screening time

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Power BI Online Test FAQs

Can I evaluate Power BI and SQL?

Yes. We support evaluating multiple skills in a single assessment. You can order a customized assessment that evaluates Power BI and SQL. You can review our standard SQL test here.

Can I evaluate Power BI and ETL in a single assessment?

Yes. We support evaluating multiple skills in a single assessment. You can order a customized assessment that evaluates Power BI and ETL. You can review our standard ETL test here.

Can I combine multiple skills into one custom assessment?

Yes, absolutely. Custom assessments are set up based on your job description, and will include questions on all must-have skills you specify.

Do you have any anti-cheating or proctoring features in place?

We have the following anti-cheating features in place:

Non-googleable questions
IP proctoring
Web proctoring
Webcam proctoring
Plagiarism detection
Secure browser

Read more about the proctoring features.

How do I interpret test scores?

The primary thing to keep in mind is that an assessment is an elimination tool, not a selection tool. A skills assessment is optimized to help you eliminate candidates who are not technically qualified for the role, it is not optimized to help you find the best candidate for the role. So the ideal way to use an assessment is to decide a threshold score (typically 55%, we help you benchmark) and invite all candidates who score above the threshold for the next rounds of interview.

What experience level can I use this test for?

Each Adaface assessment is customized to your job description/ ideal candidate persona (our subject matter experts will pick the right questions for your assessment from our library of 10000+ questions). This assessment can be customized for any experience level.

Does every candidate get the same questions?

Yes, it makes it much easier for you to compare candidates. Options for MCQ questions and the order of questions are randomized. We have anti-cheating/ proctoring features in place. In our enterprise plan, we also have the option to create multiple versions of the same assessment with questions of similar difficulty levels.